Is there a real difference in water and electricity consumption? Personally, I don’t use a lot of water to wash my dishes (by hand), but maybe I should install a flow meter to make sure.
What is your opinion on the subject? Do you have any evidence or studies available that could confirm your intuition? Or do you have other alternatives in mind?
I usually do both because I have never had a dishwasher that actually cleans anything off the dishes, no matter what I do or what cleaner I use. I am at the point I think they’re a myth propagated by Big Dishwasher. JK… or am I! Yeah, they probably do exist, but just for everyone else but me.
I was the same, dishwashers seem mostly pretty crap at eashing dishes. I’ve had about 6 different ones over the years and they never seem to save much time because you basically have to clean the dishes before you put them in anyway.
But we finally got a good one. It wasn’t cheap but I can at least recommend this one: https://www.bosch-home.co.nz/en/mkt-product/dishwashers/built-in-dishwashers/underbench-dishwasher-60-cm/SMP6HCB01A
Now I just scrape food off but dont bother with a heavy pre-rinse or scrub (except for things like dried eggyolk which still never comes off without a decent scrub)